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What is particularly exciting about the potential treatments is that unlike more traditional cancer therapies, they do not appear to damage normal tissue. Instead, the proteins interfere with a step that is important only in the creation of new blood vessels. Arteries, veins and capillaries that have been in existence for some time seem to be unaffected. Furthermore, the scientists found that the blocking agents they had created were so powerful that only a single injection was needed to produce unexpectedly dramatic results. "We're a ways from treating human beings," cautions David Cheresh, an immunologist who led the Scripps...
...planning to test the antitumor proteins in people. However, clinical trials probably will not begin until 1996 at the earliest. One of the most important issues that scientists will have to address is whether the blocking agents will also prevent the body from forming new blood vessels during the normal course of repairing cuts and other wounds. In addition, researchers must pay particular attention to the proteins' safety for women. The creation of new blood vessels is a regular part of the menstrual cycle and crucial to pregnancy as the fetus grows and develops. So any protein that dissolves...
Diarrhea, one of the symptoms caused by the Norwalk agent, "is associated with the transient malabsorption of D-xylose and fat," according to the text. After the damage of the Norwalk agent, it may take two weeks for the absorption levels in the body to return to normal...
...this epidemic, diarrhea was a minor feature," Freeman said. The absorption levels probably returned to normal quickly, he said...
Friday Night at Hodges' Cafe, written and illustrated by Tim Egan (Houghton Mifflin; $14.95), is just what a funny book for little kids ought to be: silly. Hodges, an elephant, runs a cafe that would be fairly normal, except that his crazy pet duck causes a lot of trouble. Things get out of control when three tough tigers show up (ignoring the no tigers sign) and decide that roast duck would be just dandy. Hodges whaps the biggest tiger with a squishy souffle, and the duck dives into a large raspberry tart to hide. Alas, his back end sticks...